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Exits, entrances picked for Business 40 project in downtown Winston-Salem

Construction scheduled to begin in 2016

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Updated: 12:47 PM EDT Oct 6, 2014

Exits, entrances picked for Business 40 project in downtown Winston-Salem

Construction scheduled to begin in 2016

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Updated: 12:47 PM EDT Oct 6, 2014

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —

NCDOT officials have picked the exits and entrances to be built in the big Business 40 Improvement Project in downtown Winston-Salem starting in 2016.

A full interchange will be rebuilt at Peters Creek Parkway, and a combination of Cherry and Marshall streets will be used to serve both directions, NCDOT officials announced Monday. A westbound off-ramp and eastbound on-ramp will be rebuilt at Main Street.

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As part of NCDOT's preferred alternative, the current interchanges at Broad and Liberty streets will be removed.

The entire project will take place from west of Fourth Street to east of Church Street. Ten bridges will be replaced on Bus. 40, and Peters Creek Parkway will be widened from Bus. 40 to First Street.

The project is expected to take 4-5 years to complete, and 1.1 miles of Bus. 40 will be closed for up to two years.

NCDOT officials are currently building the Salem Creek Connector and upgrading parts of Highway 52 and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, all of which will serve as detour routes during the Bus. 40 project.